Word: hardhats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hardhat v. Intellectual...
Weather people tried to 'smash the state' by breaking windows in cut-rate department stores in Chicago. PL continued to come up with gems of analysis; they attributed the hardhat attack on the peace demonstrators as provoked by the demonstrators' support for Ho Chi Minh--who the hardhats knew to be a sell-out because he was negotiating at Paris...
...welcomes in the recent annals of presidential ceremony. The band was ordered not to strike up Hail to the Chief, the President's customary entry flourish, and Meany introduced the President with a few perfunctory words. Nixon went out of his way to appear conciliatory by recalling the hardhat marches of 18 months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that I appreciate that." But after ending his remarks with a plea for labor support, Nixon received little applause. Then, to the audience...
...FUNNY SIDE (NBC). This mating of Laugh-In and sitcom is at least topical. Each week, the stock company of five couples (one young, one old, one cosmopolitan, one black, one hardhat) lights into a subject. Last week it was sex, and most of the gags were past their prime. The premiere the previous week took on health and, without drawing much blood, did at least pink such vulnerable targets as Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes...
...week UNSELL began displaying its antiwar campaign: 125 posters, 33 TV commercials and 31 radio spots, all of them pitched to political moderates and free of radical vitriol. In one TV ad, a pie is cut at a dinner table, and a black man, an old lady and a hardhat receive small slivers served up by Uncle Sam. A military man in gaudy uniform gets three-quarters of the pie, which he gulps down noisily. If radio and TV stations decline to air the ads as a "public service," then antiwar groups may buy time for them...